83.3 What's in the River? An Analysis of Low-density Polyethylene films on PAH contamination in Waterways
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Student Poster
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2:00 PM, Friday 8 Nov 2019
(1 hour 50 minutes)
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Grand Ballroom A/B
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are an organic pollutant formed from the incomplete combustion of carbon fuels. Historically these compounds are difficult to monitor reproducibly, but utilizing passive sampling films and fluorescence spectroscopy in tandem with gas chromatography flame ionization detection can achieve greater sensitivity and reproducibility.